Attorney Robert Dambrov was featured in a recent Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly edition. The article, “DALA seeing its first wave of abuser registry appeals,” discusses the Disabled Persons Protection Commission and its relatively new mandate to “maintain an abuser registry, listing all care providers against whom a ‘substantiated finding of registrable abuse’ of a person with intellectual or developmental disabilities has been made.”

The Massachusetts legislature has provided a process for accused caregivers to challenge Disabled Persons Protection Commission (DPPC) determinations by filing a petition with the Division of Administrative Law Appeals (DALA). Attorney Dambrov provides comments based on his experience counseling a client in the DALA process.

The article can be read in full here.

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